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To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
— Raymond Williams
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Raymond Williams
philosopher, novelist, writer, professor, sociologist, literary critic, literary historian, literary scholar
1921 – 1988
Raymond Henry Williams was a Welsh socialist writer, academic, novelist and critic influential within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the media and literature contributed to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts. Some 750,000 copies of his books were sold in UK editions alone, and there are many translations available. His work laid foundations for the field of cultural studies and cultural materialism.
All Quotes by Raymond Williams
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If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.
— Raymond Williams
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We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.
— Raymond Williams
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Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.
— Raymond Williams
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The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.
— Raymond Williams
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Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.
— Raymond Williams
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To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing.
— Raymond Williams
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Real independence is a time of new and active creation: people sure enough of themselves to discard their baggage; knowing the past is past, as shaping history, but with a new confident sense of the present and the future, where the decisive meanings and values will be made.
— Raymond Williams